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RE: repo on Windows -- why not?

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:26:56 -0500

"Bert Huijben" <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote on 04/28/2011 01:18:09 PM:
> > On 4/28/11 9:42 AM, Danil Shopyrin wrote:
> > >> are there any arguments to prefer Windows? (beside arguments that
you
> > drive
> > >> a Windows shop)
> > >> ok, looks like I have to adjust the section a bit.
> > >
> > > It's also very important to integrate Subversion seamlessly with
> > > Active Directory and other existing Windows infrastructure (it
applies
> > > to Windows shops, of course).
> >
> > Just to add a bit to this, if one has Active Directory but uses Unix
> servers,
> > one doesn't have to deploy on Windows to authenticate, can use LDAP in
> > httpd to
> > authenticate against AD.
>
> But currently this doesn't support NTLM/SSPI yet where you don't have to
> use/cache your credentials. Using mod_auth_sspi in Apache on Windows (or
> VisualSVN server, which does the same thing + adds their own extensions)
> does support that.

With some work(tm) mod_auth_kerb can support that on unix as well...

Kevin R.
Received on 2011-04-28 20:27:25 CEST

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